The weekly messenger., 1887-11-05


Asia ami Africa and all the islands of the
sea 1t is a. though after great battle there
were lett jI.oU wounded and diving on the
fell, an. tnrec surgeons gave all their time
to three patients u"dpr their charge. The
Major N raj com in and says % the doc
tors: 'Con.c out hero aIl ioos; Mt the nearly
5000 iyiar TO lack Ot surgical attendan >
NO, sar tn tArr' 10 tors. st lndin. there
flaming 'h'.r Td'i"nis. we have three i'm
port2s- 80. he"' ~ e are attending tc
tLeii, al ME. :, ..rt not positively baSy
with th,i.' wouu is. i. takes all our time
to keep the flies Of. - In this awful bat
tie Of eil AMI sorrow, where millions have
fallen On ni:iions. do not let us spend all our
time III t2tlnr care of a few peopl" and when
thc command comes: "G1 i'ito the world, ~
say practically. No, | cannot go: have here
few Vhp.ro "a, y and am iusy keeping OF
the it."' IEcrn are Gluit.tuleS to-day who
have nny'r h1! any Christian worker look
them "a -" e.. a.Ij with g .rne>tness in the
acc nj. ..pn. saT: "Come" or they would
lon. 10 ~ -' tern in tho kim lon NV
frIen J., .a'-."n : ctiier 4 81 ln uI' a tr,m N
dous 70 ;r. Ii u ha 4 slGT, et US d:Sband
our ChC '..cs AMI Chr.Stian association II.
II be q ..'v. hen great populations are on
the wa :. .i;c oar u tod untitled for the
ordcai. ~ what are WEDDING:
In or'tcr 10 rrIcn the multitude Of out
siderS wa mast drop all te-hnicatieS out ol
the hypJ>tai.r union and French Encyclo-
pedlaniSin ami Erastinanism. and Complu-
tenSiaHi'n. we are as impolitic and little
understood as if a physician should talk to an
ordinary patient about the pericardium and
m'ercoStai muscle, and scorbutic SYMPTOMS
Many of us come out of the theological semi.
harles so loaded up that we take the first ten
years To show our people how much we know,
ana tne next ten Years get our neOple to
NM that neither of us know anything as we
,uSht 10 KNOW. Here are hundreds and
lH"'iSthds oi SHINING. struggling and dying
people who neel to realize lust one thing
tHat "cSu> 'hrist came to save them. and
VII save them now. But we 90 into pro-
round and elaborate definition of what iIst-
icati"n s, and after all the worl: there are
nor. OUTSIDE OF the learned professions, 5000
l"Ople IN the I nited States who can tell
Wnat justification is. 1 will read YOU the
'Justiiication is purely a forensic act. the
act OF Judge sitting in the foruin. in which
the Supreme Ruler and Judge. who is ac-
'ountable 10 none. and who alone knows the
MANNER i'll which thu en,s Of His universal
gov ernnlent can best be obtained reckons /
nat which was done by tie substitute i'm the I
same MANNER as if it had been done by those
VINO Believe In the substitute and rpt on ar- /
'onnt on anything done by them bait purely !
ipoh account OF this gracious method Of !
'ecEonrng,. grants them fuil REMISSION Of /
heir sins
Now. what is justification : I will tell Won
What justification is-when a sinner believes /
fod lets him off. One summer in Connect
ut went TO large factory. and saw over
he door written the words - No Admit
ance entered and saw over ths next
oor: =" No Admittance' OF course entered.
got nsideand found ita pin factory, and they
we're making pins. very serviceable, fine and
soful pins. So the spirit of exclusiveness
as practically written over the outside door
! many church - No admittance" And
the stranger enters he finds practirally
'rItten over the second door: No Admit
Hn"e; and If he goes liz. over all the pew
oors seems written: mo Admittance - while
he mlnStsr stands in the pulpit, hammerin-
mt his little nceties of belief, pounding out
ne technlcalities of religion, making pins
N the m Dst practical, cOmmonsense way and
iylng aside the nOn-eSsentials and the hard
efnitions of religion, go out on the God
wen mission, telling the people what they
eed and when and how they can get it,
Comparatively little effort has as vet been
lade TO save that large class of persons i'm
ur midst called skeptics, and he who goes to
'ork here will not be building upon another
IAN foundation: There is a great multi
lde OF them. They are afraid Of Ms and our
hurches, for the reasen we don't know how
D treat them. One Of this class met Christ.
nd hear with what teG,lerneSs> and pathos,
nd beauty, and success Christ dealt with
I'M: Thou shalt love the lord thy God
nth all thy heart and with all thy soul, and
nth all thy mind and with an thy strength
his is the first commandments and the sec
nd is hike to this; namely, thou shalt love
ny neighbos "a thyself. There is no
ther commandment greater than this.
Ind the scribe said to him: "Wen,
laSter, thou hast said the truth. !
or there is one God. and to love
i'm with all the heart, and all
ne understanding. and all the soul. and all
ne strength is more than whole burnt offer
1gs and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw
bat he answered discreetly, he said unto
I'M: Thou art not far from the kingdom
tod So a skeptic was saved in one in
erview. But few Christian people treat the